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axioms of EU. In this paper, the classic Allais paradox, which predicts a systematic violation of the independence axiom, is … tested in the context of health outcomes. Seventeen of 38 participants demonstrated strict violations of independence, with …
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Theil’s information-theoretic approach to the measurement of inequality (Theil 1967) is set in the context of subsequent developments over recent decades. It is shown that Theil’s initial insight leads naturally to a very general class of inequality measures. It is thus closely related to a...
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promote economic activity within regions that enjoy an increase in accessibility. Our results on the one hand confirm …
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data for Britain. Exposure to transport improvements is measured by changes in employment accessibility along the road … placement by using changes due to new road links and exploiting the spatial detail in our data to focus on accessibility changes …
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a limiting long-term illness or disability. In our analysis of inactivity rates by region and age group we find that …
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Relative poverty in the UK has risen massively since 1979 mainly because of increasing worklessness, rising earnings dispersion and benefits indexed to prices, not wages. So poverty is now at a very high level. The economic forces underlying this are the significant shift in demand against the...
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status. In this paper we use data from two large scale social surveys to examine the relationship between disability status … important lifecycle patterns. The incidence of disability increases with age and the effect of this is that disabled people are … that average differences understate the true disability wealth-penalty. People who experience disability later in life have …
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progression of disabled people with respect to differences in age, education, occupation and disability severity. The evidence …
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possible source of additional needs: disability. Using two UK household surveys, we seek to establish whether there are extra … costs of living associated with disability, and to quantify them using the ¿standard of living¿ approach. The underlying … theory is that a household¿s standard of living is a function of income and needs. The extra costs of disability can be …
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caring with employment is extremely difficult, so families are heavily reliant upon benefits. But do disability benefits … experience of applying for disability living allowance (DLA) and how they use additional benefit income. Families report that DLA …
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